<Swing Dev> Should disable item be navigable?

Alexander Potochkin Alexander.Potochkin at oracle.com
Tue Mar 29 18:02:18 UTC 2011


Hello Charles
> On 03/28/2011 10:46 PM, Alexander Potochkin wrote:
>> Hello Charles
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> Are there some spec about the navigable? Should disable item be 
>>> navigable?
>>> I have notice, in the 
>>> src/share/classes/com/sun/java/swing/plaf/windows/WindowsLookAndFeel.java, 
>>> line 1000:
>>> "MenuItem.disabledAreNavigable", Boolean.TRUE,
>>>
>>> Should it to be FALSE as default?
>>
>> It is dependent on a particular LaF,
>> in native Windows applications disabled menu items can be selected
>
> So if the native is supporting the navigation of disabled menu, the 
> flag will be set TRUE as default?
Let's make it this way:

I run SwingSet2 with default LaF
and checked that disabled menu items in the File menu
(Open, Save and Save as)

are not selectable

then I switched to Windows LaF
and now they are selectable

do you see any problems here?

Thanks
alexp
>
>>
>> Thanks
>> alexp
>




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